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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 3
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Israel and Judah defiled and polluted the land through wickedness—In the last days, the Lord will gather Israel, one of a city and two of a family, and bring them to Zion.
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They</span> say, If a man <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Divorce.">put</a> away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again?  shall not that land be greatly <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/3/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Pollution.">polluted</a>?  but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with.  In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 31: 16.">whoredoms</a> and with thy wickedness.
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Therefore the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 14: 22; Amos 4: 7.">showers</a> have been withholden, and there hath been no <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/3/3b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR spring rain.">latter</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/3/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 4 (3-4); Jer. 14: 4.">rain</a>; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
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Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou <i>art</i> the guide of my youth?
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Will he reserve <i>his </i><sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Micah 7: 18."><i>anger</i></a> for ever?  will he keep <i>it</i> to the end?  Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.
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&#182; The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen <i>that</i> which backsliding Israel hath done?  she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
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And I said after she had done all these <i>things,</i> Turn thou unto me.  But she returned not.  And her treacherous <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 16: 46 (45-46, 61); Ezek. 23: 2.">sister</a> Judah saw <i>it.</i>
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And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Adultery.">adultery</a> I had put her away, and given her a bill of <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/3/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Divorce.">divorce</a>; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
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And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 17: 7; Lev. 20: 5; Ezek. 23: 37.">committed</a> adultery with <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/3/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">stones</a> and with <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/3/9c" mark="c" type="A" title="Jer. 2: 27 (20-30).">stocks</a>.
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And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="JS-H 1: 19.">feignedly</a>, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 16: 51; D&C 88: 39 (38-39).">justified</a> herself more than treacherous Judah.
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&#182; Go and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 30: 9.">proclaim</a> these words toward the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/3/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Ten Lost Tribes of.">north</a>, and say, <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/3/12c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Restoration of.">Return</a>, thou backsliding Israel, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; <i>and</i> I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I <i>am</i> merciful, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>and</i> I will not keep <i>anger</i> for ever.
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Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Disobedience.">obeyed</a> my voice, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Turn, O backsliding children, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; for I am <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Abrahamic Covenant.">married</a> unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/3/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Missionary Work.">bring</a> you to <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/3/14c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Zion.">Zion</a>:
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And I will give you <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/15a" mark="a" type="R" title="HEB shepherds; TG Bishop.">pastors</a> according to mine heart, which shall feed you with <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/3/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Knowledge.">knowledge</a> and understanding.
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And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, they shall say no more, The <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Ark of the Covenant.">ark</a> of the covenant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit <i>it;</i> neither shall <i>that</i> be done any more.
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At that time they shall call <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Joel 3: 21 (18-21); Zech. 2: 10 (10-12); Rev. 22: 3 (3-4).">Jerusalem</a> the throne of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and all the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/3/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Nations.">nations</a> shall be <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/3/17c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Gathering of.">gathered</a> unto it, to the name of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the <sup>d</sup><a href="jer/3/17d" mark="d" type="D" title="OR stubbornness.">imagination</a> of their evil heart.
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In those days the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 29: 14 (8, 14).">house</a> of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/3/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 16: 15.">land</a> of the <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/3/18c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Ten Lost Tribes of.">north</a> to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
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But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations?  and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
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&#182; Surely <i>as</i> a wife treacherously <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Divorce.">departeth</a> from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping <i>and</i> supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, <i>and</i> they have forgotten the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God.
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Return, ye backsliding children, <i>and</i> I will <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="3 Ne. 9: 13; 3 Ne. 18: 32.">heal</a> your backslidings.  Behold, we come unto thee; for thou <i>art</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God.
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Truly in vain <i>is salvation hoped for</i> from the hills, <i>and from</i> the multitude of mountains: truly in the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God <i>is</i> the salvation of Israel.
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For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
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We lie down in our <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/3/25a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Shame.">shame</a>, and our confusion covereth us: for we have <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/3/25b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">sinned</a> against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God.
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